From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp•com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail•com>
Cc: "David Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>,
leandroal@gmail•com, netdev@vger•kernel.org,
"Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki•fi>
Subject: Re: TCP packet size and delivery packet decisions
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:57:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C866EFD.4060404@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1283859552.2338.402.camel@edumazet-laptop>
> Is there a hard requirement about segment size being at most half the
> window ?
In the deep, dark, past of other stacks, there were concerns about devolving
into stop-start. I suppose from a theoretical standpoint, there is a chance
that MSS==window, coupled with immediate ACKnowledgement on the receiver could
send zero windows that might elicit undesirable probes?
rick jones
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-07 16:57 UTC|newest]
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2010-09-07 4:20 ` TCP packet size and delivery packet decisions ツ Leandro Melo de Sales
2010-09-07 4:36 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-09-07 5:13 ` ツ Leandro Melo de Sales
2010-09-07 5:16 ` David Miller
2010-09-07 5:21 ` ツ Leandro Melo de Sales
2010-09-07 5:30 ` David Miller
2010-09-07 6:02 ` ツ Leandro Melo de Sales
2010-09-07 6:09 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-09-07 7:16 ` ツ Leandro Melo de Sales
2010-09-07 7:32 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-09-08 14:01 ` ツ Leandro Melo de Sales
2010-09-07 11:39 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-09-07 12:15 ` Ilpo Järvinen
2010-09-08 3:18 ` David Miller
2010-09-08 12:14 ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2010-09-13 1:23 ` David Miller
2010-09-14 9:37 ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2010-09-15 17:29 ` David Miller
2010-09-07 16:35 ` David Miller
2010-09-07 16:57 ` Rick Jones [this message]
2010-09-08 14:06 ` ツ Leandro Melo de Sales
2010-09-08 15:24 ` David Miller
2010-09-08 16:03 ` ツ Leandro Melo de Sales
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